flavescent

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Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the

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  • Everything spread out again: the bridges with their arches opening upon the sheeny water; the Cite, enveloped in shade, above which rose the flavescent towers of Notre-Dame; the great curve of the right bank flooded with sunlight, and ending in the indistinct silhouette of the —  His Masterpiece
 

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  1. Latin flāvēscēns, flāvēscent-, present participle of flāvēscere, to turn yellow, inchoative of flāvēre, to be yellow, from flāvus, yellow; see bhel-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin flavescen(t-)s, present participle of flavescere, become yellow, inceptive of flavere, be yellow (golden-yellow, light-yellow), from flavus, yellow, golden-yellow, light-yellow: see flavous.
 

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